Hardware Companies Research Articles

3D Printing the Future of Healthcare

3D Printing the Future of Healthcare

The relationship between international diversification, innovation performance and firm performance: An empirical analysis among hardware companies

The relationship between international diversification, innovation performance and firm performance: An empirical analysis among hardware companies

Internet of Things process selection: AHP selection method

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become an important agenda in the advanced manufacturing environment. In order to encourage IoT application and assure an appropriate selection of processes to be improved by IoT technology, a group of analysis criteria must be highlighted to give the companies a tool to perform the correct selection. This study aims to propose a model for selecting IoT technology. The research design combines a systematic literature review, applying bibliometrics and content analysis, with case application and refinement. An application was carried out in an IoT hardware company, incorporating it at a solvent recycling machine. A second application was performed in a seedling selection machine producer. As a result, a model for selecting IoT technology is presented, which consists of four phases—process modeling, grading, weighting, and final selection. The model applies an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) based on the following criteria: reliability, security, business, mobility, and heterogeneity. The results also suggest IoT selection is related to the ability of combining different criteria related to the system and technology selection to install IoT solutions. Finally, issues related to the system characteristics other than technology are becoming more cited in the literature in the last 5 years concluding that selecting IoT technology is a complex activity that needs to be improved, especially in the years to come.

Application of Importance and Performance Matrix to Assess the Quality of Services Provided by Business Incubators

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the use of importance and performance matrix in assessing the quality of services provided by incubators. It is a descriptive research and it uses a qualitative approach. The research design is a case study, based on interviews with four entrepreneurs from the same incubator. It also uses a documental analysis from the public notice selection of the incubates used by this incubator. The dimensions of the services provided by incubators (infrastructure, professional services and network) and the attributes of these dimensions were selected based on previous studies. These attributes were used in the construction of the interview script and results analysis, aided by qualitative data analysis software for researchers, called NVivo® from QSR International Pty Ltd. The coding was developed based on 146 citations from interviews. High importance was attached to the infrastructure, which was evaluated as excellent. The professional services have received less importance, but they need to be improved. Despite the importance attached to the network, no robust actions were reported by the incubator. The analysis of clusters (or groupings) resulted in a group with hardware companies and another with software companies, resulting in two importance and performance matrixes being built. These matrices suggest the improvement of incubator performance in promotional activities to internal and external network. For hardware developers, access to laboratories is added. The study contributes to investigate the quality of services offered by incubators, especially when using importance and performance matrix.

Knowledge flows, changing firms’ competences and patent citations: an analysis of the trajectory of IBM

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates knowledge flows that a leading firm might deal to transform its core competencies, through a case study about IBM. The transformation of IBM from a hardware company to a knowledge service provider is strongly dependent upon different knowledge sources and areas, different capabilities fed by different science and engineering fields. Our theoretical framework presents how the literature on innovation has been enriched by elaborations on dynamic capabilities of firms, on the role of knowledge and knowledge flows as a source of those capabilities and on patent citations as statistical tool to capture those knowledge flows. This paper integrates those three different approaches using patent citations statistics to measure knowledge flows behind IBM’s changing capabilities. Our contribution to this literature is an articulation of a historical summary of the evolution of IBM with an empirical analysis of those changes through patent citations statistics.

EXPLANATION OF THE ALGORITHMS FOR DISPLAYING 3D FIGURES ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN

Not long time ago people can only dream about the thing that they can see 3-dimensional world inside of the screen of the computer. Computers at that time can display only 256 colors on their screens, they can work only with integer numbers, and their computation speed was not fast enough. This dream comes true with the help of Id Software company. This company started to build its games by using of simplified 3D graphics. All these simplified 3D graphics were calculated by the software 3D rendering algorithms which were not published by these company. At that time there was a global goal to speedup calculations for 3D graphics and to make it look more realistic. The solution for this comes from hardware companies. Hardware companies started to work on hardware 3D accelerators, which can render 3D graphics much faster than software algorithms. These 3D accelerators are fully patented, so that no one knows how they are implemented inside. At that time there were proposed two 3D rendering interfaces: Direct3D and OpenGL. And manufacturers of graphic cards started supporting both of these interfaces. Lots of game development companies started to use these interfaces. And also Id Software company started to redesign its game engine to support these interfaces to take place in game market. From that time, everybody started to use 3D accelerators with built-in 3D rendering features and as a result everybody forgot about software 3D rendering algorithms. Nowadays the situation come in the following way, that most of the algorithms which are used in 3D games are not published on paper, and all the 3D accelerator internal algorithms are patented. All modern 3D graphics are fully conserved by the video cards, so that 3D rendering could not be developed in other way. The goal of this article is explanation of how 3D graphics can be displayed on the screen of the computer.

Determination of Association Rules with Market Basket Analysis: Application in the Retail Sector

Market basket analysis is the process of extracting purchasing trends from records in company databases, taking into account the products that customers buy in a single transaction. In this study, a market basket analysis was conducted on a five-and-a-half year data of a large hardware company operating in the retail sector, and related product categories were identified. In determining the association rules, both the Apriori and FP-Growth algorithms were run separately and their usefulness in such a set of data was compared. In addition, the data set was divided into Data Set-1 and Data Set-2 so that the consistency of the rules was discussed by comparing the correctness of rules extracted from the first data set with rules derived from the second data set containing consecutive timed data.

The Next Step: Acquisitions and Open Collaboration Platforms [Connected Vehicles

Recently, there has been great interest in connected vehicles and autonomous driving. Through the years, I have written about different alliances, coalitions, and partnerships between vehicle manufacturers and map suppliers, telecom operators, concept developers, mobility as a service (MaaS) providers, software companies, hardware companies, and, of course, other vehicle manufacturers. In contrast, I have seldom written about the outcomes of these partnerships. In retrospect, it seems the announcement of a partnership simply marks the beginning of an era, i.e., before the different players begin interacting, and, in some cases, the main outcome of a partnership is a good press release. Still, it shows that there is an interest to get a press release in a particular area, and that the area is important, but also that no real progress has yet been made. Furthermore, there have been many press releases about test tracks, field trials, and concept demonstrations.

Need to build a better hospital? Use chip design [Spectral Lines

Deepak Aatresh, an electrical and computer engineer from India, joined Intel in 1989 as a chip designer—after reading an article I wrote for IEEE Spectrum on Intel’s project to build the first million-transistor chip! After seven years at Intel, he moved on to communications hardware companies. Then, in 2008, bitten by the startup bug but without a particular startup idea in mind, he joined Artiman Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. He thought he'd try to find ways to reduce energy waste and improve energy efficiency.

정보기술 산업에서의 인수 유형별 인수 의도 분석

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Live Life to the Power of PS2: Locating the Digital Games Industry in the New Media Environment

The digital games industry is a global entertainment business stretching from Tokyo to San Francisco to London. In May each year, game developers from around the world meet in Los Angeles to pitch their ideas to publishers, sneak a preview of other games and do licensing deals with hardware companies and Hollywood studios. The show has much in common with Melia and Cannes: it has all the glitz, the hype and the stars. The main difference is that the stars are non-human, the digital game producers are relatively unknown and this form of popular culture has been largely ignored by established university media programmes and media researchers.

Selecting Different Industrial Competitors Influence the Risk Level of VietNam Hardware Companies

This research shows marketing factors such as business competitors could affect business market risk, from a quantitative point of view. Using a two (2) factors model, this research paper estimates the impacts of not only the size of firms’ competitors, but also leverage in the hardware industry, on the market risk of 22 listed companies in this category. This paper founds out that the risk dispersion level in this sample study could be minimized in case the competitor size remaining as current (measured by equity beta var of 0,067) and leverage down to 20%. Beside, the emprical research findings show us that when financial leverage increases up to 30%, max asset beta value decreases from 1,069 to 1,033 in case the size of competitor doubles. Last but not least, this paper illustrates calculated results that might give proper recommendations to relevant governments and institutions in re-evaluating their policies during and after the financial crisis 2007-2011.

АВТОМАТИЗАЦИЯ ИСПЫТАНИЙ АНАЛОГОВЫХ МИКРОСХЕМ

Possible options for automated testing of analog chips with universal testers «Formula 2K» and PXI hardware company «National Instruments», as well as through a dedicated tester TR9574 Hungarian company «EMG». Described by authors developed automated testers: ATIKOU (test chip comparators and operational amplifiers) and ATIAUDIO (test chip audio amplifiers).

An Exploratory Study on Operationalization of Integrated Stakeholder Relationships Management

This paper offers a new conceptual model, the integrated stakeholder relationships management model based on the principles of systems thinking and integrated management approach. This research is unique in its scope by considering all management functions while trying to integrate the stakeholders into the strategic decisions of the management. The model is tested on a sample with 303 respondents from software companies (175), hardware companies (100) and a sectoral association (28) in Turkey to explore how stakeholder relationships are managed based on the perceptions of the managers and the employees. Whereas the pilot study showed us the feasibility of the model, the main study results indicated how the stakeholder relationships are managed in a group of sample IT organizations when compared to the ideal criteria given by the proposed model. The model may prove to be a managerial guide for the managers at all levels for their attempts to integrate stakeholder interests into the management processes.

Customer Service Information System for a Call Center

Abstract As one of the customer relationship management tools, a call center acts as an interface between the customers and the company. The aim of this case study is to design a web based customer service information system to improve service quality and efficiency in a call center. The results are based on a single case studying a certain manufacturer of ceramic sanitary wares and plumbing hardware company in one of the countries it operates. Considering there were several significant issues which directly affect the level of customer satisfaction. The objectives of the system are to manage the technician schedule to do a visit based on the customer preference, to facilitate better escalation of unclosed processed problems after certain duration of time and to generate various types of reports for the use of the management. Furthermore the ability to enable the system to be used by new call center planned to be opened in different location was added. The proposed solution also facilitated mobile usage for more significant process improvements.

Are we in love with cyber insecurity?

Almost 40 years ago, as a student, I earned extra money by coding and testing programs for the administrative processes of a building hardware company. It was still the time of punch cards. In addition to coding programs in RPG3, I had to design sets of test data and describe the expected outputs to show the system designers and code reviewers that the test sets covered all the decision logic branches of the programs. However, a successful run on a test set after debugging a program was just a first step. When I announced that a program was ready, the system designer walked to the garbage bin adjacent to the card punch machines and collected a stack of a few hundred cards that were rejected because they contained errors. This was the second test set. If even one of those cards was not rejected by my program, I had a difficult time. The coding standard was to perform rigorous input validation of each and every data field before any data could be moved to the company databases. This was one of the early examples of the principle of self-protection. In 1978, an analysis of the almost daily crashes of our mainframe operating system led us conclude that most of the input buffers of the system programs were unguarded. Even simple user program errors would cause buffer overflows and overwrite executable code that, in turn, led to crashes of the entire mainframe. In a major effort, we patched and secured more than 100 system utilities. The code was sent to the system manufacturer via a non-standard software error reporting route. In hindsight, this could be considered to be a form of responsible disclosure.

The big time: build a giant version of the 555 Timer IC [Resources_Hands On

Biologists have plastic DNA helices, astronomers have celestial globes, and chemists the ubiquitous periodic table wall chart. These iconic objects each encapsulate a foundational piece of working knowledge, recognizable to all practitioners in a field. Sadly, such touchstones are thin on the ground for electrical engineers. Although pretty, vacuum tubes, for example, are a niche technology these days, while the transistors and integrated circuits that define the discipline are a bit on the small side for easy viewing. So I was pleased when I learned about the recent creation of the US $35 Three Fives Discrete 555 Timer Kit, sold by Evil Mad Scientist, a DIY and open-source hardware company located in Silicon Valley.

Royalty-Free Video Coding Standards in MPEG [Standards in a Nutshell

On 7 March 2013, the Moving Picture Experts Group Licensing Association (MPEG LA) and Google announced that they have entered into an agreement granting Google a license to techniques, if the patents in MPEG LA might be essential to VP8. Under this agreement, hardware and software companies are free to use the VP8 technology when developing their own products. Considering that it is now common to find patent disputes in headline news, the patent issues related to video coding standards are no exception. In this article, we report on the recent developments in royalty-free codec standardization in MPEG, particularly Internet video coding (IVC), Web video coding (WVC), and video coding for browser, by reviewing the history of royalty-free standards in MPEG and the relationship between standards and patents.

Beta of Viet Nam Listed Computer and Electrical Company Groups during and after the Financial Crisis 2007-2011

During and after the financial crisis 2007-2011, the Viet Nam stock market, generally, has unexpected fluctuations and VNI-Index has decreased. Besides, the Viet Nam computer and electrical industry, specifically, has to re-evaluate the risk level. First, we estimate asset and equity beta of four (4) sub-industrial listed companies in Viet Nam computer and electrical industries by using a proper traditional model. We found out that the mean value of beta of total 64 firms used in this research is around 0,711, which is quite acceptable. Second, through comparison among four (4) different groups, we find out that the values of beta during the period 2007-2011 of listed hardware companies vary less than those of the rest three (3) listed groups: software, electrical and comm./telecommunication firms. Finally, this paper provides both internal and external investors, financial institutions, companies and government more evidence in establishing their policies in investments and in governance.

To What Extent Corporate Tax Policy Changes Impact on the Risk Level of Viet Nam Software and Hardware Companies

To What Extent Corporate Tax Policy Changes Impact on the Risk Level of Viet Nam Software and Hardware Companies